The disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has underlined the danger of nuclear power. Authorities in Japan have now officially ranked the crisis on the same level as the Chernobyl disaster.
The world’s worst nuclear disaster took place 25 years ago when a nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, on
Radiation occurs naturally. But nuclear power creates highly concentrated, unnatural, forms of radiation. Radiation is linked to cell damage and cell mutations. Children, foetuses, older people and ill people are more at risk from radiation because their cells are damaged, weak or rapidly growing.
Teachers at Darwen Vale High School in Lancashire went on strike last week. The media spun the strike as being one against "unruly children".
The poor of Brixton, south London, rose up against poverty and racism 30 years ago this week. Police stations and vans were set alight as thousands poured onto the streets. People were no longer prepared to put up with racist police officers and rising unemployment.
‘Brixton was a place of boarded up properties and squats in 1981. There were no opportunities. A lot of people lost hope—and we had a racist police force of course.
The scale of the rioting panicked the ruling class and Margaret Thatcher’s government was forced to respond with a two-pronged strategy.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, like other Arab rulers, is determined to cling onto power in the face of the spreading revolts across the region. So far, that has meant killing more than 60 people in the first fortnight of protests.
Prison officers across Britain have held meetings over the Tory government’s controversial plans to privatise jails.
My first real encounter with anarchist ideas, although I didn’t know it at the time, was at school when I was part of organising a student walk-out against the Iraq war.
Every revolution is a flowering of the creative energy of people who have just discovered their power to change the world. New parties spring up out of nowhere and the political map is constantly redrawn.
The government’s budget last week was an assault on the poor. It was a budget for more cuts, more privatisation and more attacks.
